ACLU intervenes: DC anti-occupation ad that almost wasn’t
Posted on March 28 2007 by Cecilie Surasky under Free speech.“See the ad that CBS didn’t want you to” reads the subject line of en email sent out yesterday by the US Campaign to End the Occupation. The Campaign is organizing a June 10-11 mobilization in Washington DC to mark the 40th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
They created an ad to run on the metro system:
CBS Outdoors, which manages advertising for the Washington, DC metro rail system, originally rejected our ad. However, after our friends at the ACLU intervened and defended our right to freedom of speech, CBS relented and DC commuters will view this ad almost 9 million times starting in May! Click here or on the icon below to see a larger scale version of the ad.
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March 29th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
informed comment -juancole.com
Saudi King Abdullah said on Wednesday at the opening of the Arab League meetings, ““In beloved Iraq, blood is shed among our brothers while there is an illegitimate foreign occupation and a hateful sectarianism that is threatening to develop into a civil war . . .”
King Abdullah followed up on these harsh criticisms of the US by cancelling his planned appearance at a White House dinner in April. The Saudi royal family is fit to be tied that Bush gave Iraq away to fundamentalist Shiite parties that have close ties to Iran.
March 29th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
What was CBS’s reasons for rejecting the ad? Please give more of the story before making the accusation of “muzzling.”
I hope JVP will be just as supportive of pro-Israel proganda in the transit system as it is of anti-Israel propaganda. And yes, this ad is total one sided propaganda.
The most obvious problematic element is the hint of blood libel — that is, a tank bearing down on a small child.
You know, Passover is just around the corner.